Artist Tina Dillman with her chalk sign! one of MANY tasks she voluntarily undertook to help make this event happen, including organizing the group into shape, getting the work on the walls, and now providing us with experienced direction in establishing not-for-profit arts groups.

Clinton NY based painter Timothy Rand, doing exactly what I did: Snitching good ideas from Jenna North's two contributions to our small works exhibit. Good art leads to more art.

With The Dev's proprietor Tim Schram, whom I first met via the Downtown Utica Development Association meetings over the winter.

With artists Jenna North and Jennifer Krawiec.

Colgate painting professor Dewitt Godfrey -- whom I met first at painter Kara Rusch's Hamilton Center for the Arts show in April -- Sculpture Space, Inc.'s Monika Burczyk, and The Thing about to morph into a slime creature.

With my Hamilton arts scene colleague Dawn Farrar.

Utica's own Tony Thompson and Timothy Rand, looking spiffy as always for another art reception.

Artists Tony Thompson and Julie Angerosa.

Tony Thompson, Steve Nyland, and Dawn Farrar, all artists from the Broad Street Gallery in Hamilton NY, find out more at the HCA website linked here: